Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

Indeed… it has been some time. We have been writing, deleting, thinking but not posting for a while now and its time you knew why.

ISSM is about to undergo a relaunch and as ever, it requires considerable time and effort. Along with this a new site will be furnished which will incorporate this blog Insha’Allah. Please pray for us. We are still alive and well Al-Hamdulillah!

In the recent exposition of John Ware’s deceptive, comtemptuous and bigoted demonisation of Muslims and Muslim schools, I explained and demonstrated how the media can be and has been used to twist facts to portray what may be perfectly legitimate and harmless into something negative, sinister and draconian. I cited the timeless words of Malcolm X:

“The powers use the press to give the devil an angelic image, and give the image of the devil to the one who’s really angelic. They make oppression and exploitation and war actually look like an act of humanitarianism.”

John Pilger has forensically analysed the use of the media as a tool of Western nations to further their imperialistic endeavours and disguise War Crimes. In his latest piercing documentary, uncovers the war you don’t see.

The following Youtube video is the first of seven parts of the full documentary:

Rupert Murdoch. I have mentioned him in other posts in the past. The man owns and of course directs much of the Western media and indeed elsewhere around the globe. The same media which is accomplice to the increase in the Hijab tearing, racist jibing hate crimes, responsible for the creation of the evil entity known as the “Islamist” (no doubt assisted by the cogs of the machinery – Ed Husain et al) and the spread of xenophobia. And al-Qaeda. You know the same al-Qaeda that no one, perhaps even Osama bin Laden himself, had heard of before 9/11 and is now this supranational entity hell-bent on bringing the Western values to it’s knees via military level precision plots to blow up shoes.

The evergreen ever-eloquent Shaykh Deedat (May Allah have Mercy on him) answers the argument that women covering is an oppression against them. Sarkozy, Saira Khan, Quilliam Foundation and all other modernists and secularists, take note…